Re: WML processing and filename truncating/stripping of generated output file

Hi Rolf!

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:54:26PM +0100, Rolf Sponsel wrote:
> I happy to see that the WML community
> seems to be still going strong. Great!

Good programs never die, they just settle some dust on it. ;-)

> What I'd like to accomplish is to, in-
> stead of adding those parser options
> at the beginning of every file, have
> every file ending in, e.g. wml, to be
> automagically renamed to whatever it's
> name is but without that '.wml' suffix.
> E.g.
> 
> filename.wml		-> filename
> filename.html.wml	-> filename.html
> filename.xhtml.wml	-> filename.xhtml
> filename.shtml.wml	-> filename.shtml
> filename.perl.wml	-> filename.perl
> filename.php.wml	-> filename.php
> filename.css.wml	-> filename.css
> ...
> 
> Is this possible to archive with WML as
> it stands today,

Yes, although it does not work with wmk as documented (which seems to
be a bug since the result is quite strange).

Here's the howto:

Write as one line of your .wmlrc "-o %BASE". If you want to use wmk,
too, you have to put this line into your .wmkrc, too, although it
shouldn't be necessary according to the documentation.

Regarding the above mentioned bug:

If you put it into your .wmlrc but not your .wmkrc and then use wmk,
in case of filename.html.wml as source you'll get both (!)
filename.html as well as filename.html.html which is definitely not
what I would expect.

Shlomi: Can you confirm this with the current WML dev version? I've
used an older WML 2.0.8 from Debian 3.0 (Woody) here for testing this
issue.

Looking at the wmk source, it seems that wmk ist not reading .wmlrc
files at all and then, if no -o is present in either a) the wmk
command line, b) the .wmkrc or c) the source file, it wmk
automatically adds a "-o$base.html" and wml in the above mentioned
setup adds another one when parsing the .wmlrc. So IMHO wmk should at
least check the .wmlrc for "-o" options and the according long format.
(Or we should document this "feature" in the man pages for wmk. :-)

Or did I oversee something?

		Regards, Axel
-- 
Axel Beckert - [email protected] - http://abe.home.pages.de/
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